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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Essential reading for anyone interested in disinformation

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Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation, Leeds @ctilsleeds.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We are very happy to announce that Dr John Li - a distinguished Senior UN Interpreter - has joined our interpreting teaching team. Dr Li brings a wealth of interpreting experience at the highest levels and will teach simultaneous interpreting on our MA programmes

Dr John Li teaching simultaneous interpreting at the University of Leeds

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EST Congress Leeds 2025 @estleeds25.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The EST 2025 draft programme is now live - bit.ly/3FBYRMs. Don't forget that reduced rate ‘Early Bird’ registration is also still open until 31 March ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/ev...

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Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation, Leeds @ctilsleeds.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There's now a dedicated account for news on the EST Congress in Leeds this summer @estleeds25.bsky.social

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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Everytime I get into doing a narrative analysis of material on Twitter I'm astonished by 1) just how complicated and messy narrative production really is in this environment and 2) how extraordinary it is that most users have no difficulty at all in immediately making sense of it

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Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation, Leeds @ctilsleeds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

At COLING 2025 - a key conference in Natural Language Processing - CTILS PhD student Lama Alqurashi received a 'best paper' award for her work on using Large Language Models to study Arabic poetry. 🥳

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"I want a better pay deal for our members, who deserve it. But I also understand that the likelihood of getting a better pay deal at this particular historical moment is next to zero," writes @dyfrigjones.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/stri...

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Striking over pay amid the UK’s financial crisis is misguided at best

The work of lobbying policymakers to make HE a higher priority is undermined by the endless pantomime of UCU’s internal politics, says Dyfrig Jones

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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

My latest paper is now out! I use Heidegger's existential hermeneutics to explore the ontological relationships between translators and their equipment and environment and argue that translation can re-disclose the world, revealing it in new ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Translating with Heidegger: worldliness, disclosure and disruption

There is major interest in contemporary translation studies in relational approaches inspired by thinkers including Latour, Bourdieu, Derrida and Gadamer. These thinkers were heavily influenced by ...

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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I LOVE this project - super important work

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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators "The award will be biggest of its kind in Europe & aims to celebrate the work of overlooked & underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI." www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... @eivinden.bsky.social @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social

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Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators

The award will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI

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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm back to work today after three months of parental leave. I'm so glad to have done it a second time. It's been wonderful to spend quality time with my child but also so helpful to get proper insight into how it feels to be off for an extended period and then come back to work.

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Jiaming Zheng @jiamingzheng.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here is a starter pack for academics and researchers in Translation Studies. Please let me know if you want to be added to this list. @neilsadler.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Mto2Yuo

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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

My favourite think about Bluesky so far is that it's blissfully quiet. Probably says something about Twitter as well as about the importance of curating your feed.

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